MOONSTONE BOOKS FOR JANUARY

Following are Moonstone Books' solicitations for January, with information coming from the company.

O'HENRY'S THE CISCO KID #1

Written by Jim Duffy, art by Jerry Decaire.

O'Henry's tragic anti-hero, The Cisco Kid looks for meaning in a squalid life of crime and violence, as the dark secret he harbors eats away at his soul like a jagged tooth demon. While he's busy drinking his problems away, a gang of outlaws take a sharp dislike to him, and steal the only thing he's got worth having...a locket with the picture of the woman who haunts his every step. CiscoO tracks them, and discovers that they're part of a larger outfit that shanghai's defenseless Mexican women and children to sell to the highest bidder. Hot after these thugs as well is Pancho, who has family at the kidnappers compound he must free! The two, motivated by very different instincts, form an uneasy truce to scrape this band of outlaw scum off the face of the old west. 30 pages of story.

32 pages, black and white, $2.95.

MR. KEEN, TRACER OF LOST PERSONS #3

Written by Justin Gray, art by Lee Ferguson.

Mr. Keen, Ninette and Mike make their seige against Lucien Denali's horrible sex mansion in this ego-destroying finale. Will Ninette exact her revenge for the crimes Denali commited against her? As this tale of violence and social horror unfolds, and as the truth of what happened to her in Algiers so many years ago becomes clear, will the programmed levels of psychosis buried deep inside her trigger a breakdown? Vengeance may slip through her white knuckle grip...or just be fist-delivered in a most unexpected fashion? 30 story-pages of gripping suspense.

32 pages, black and white, $2.95.